From KCET Departures: KCET Departures invites you to participate in a StoryShare event at the Community Picnic Celebrating the Restoration of the Great Wall of Los Angeles. Take the opportunity to share your stories about the Great Wall, or how public murals have shaped your experiences in Los Angeles. Food trucks, music, poetry, and muralists [...]

Michael Hart, who was widely credited with creating the first e-book when he typed the Declaration of Independence into a computer on July 4, 1971, and in so doing laid the foundations for Project Gutenberg, the oldest and largest digital library, was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 64. [...]

SPARC’s Artistic Director Judy Baca and Project Manager Carlos Rogel restore the Great Wall of Los Angeles in the Los Angeles River. Click here to see the Slide Show and Photo Gallery of the Great Wall Restoration by The City Project. The Great Wall restoration is rich with meaning at many levels.  The Judy Baca [...]

  LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS State of California     www.california-lulac.org 11591 Candy Lane, Garden Grove CA 92840 Tel. (714) 357-4328 Fax (714) 636-7770 PRESS RELEASE July 21, 2011 Contact: Mr. Gil Flores      Media State Coordinator Phone: (714) 803-6362 The League of United Latin American Citizens recognizes the life of a great American leader, [...]

English / Spanish A voice for peace in Latin America was silenced today in Guatemala. UNESCO declared him to be an “international messenger of peace” in 1996. Guatemala’s 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, went to the scene of the killing and wept. “For me, Facundo Cabral is a master,” she said. “He loved [...]

“[February 3, 1959] was the day in 1959 that rockers Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper [and Richie Valens] died in an Iowa plane crash, commemorated in rock lore as The Day the Music Died. . . . Ritchie Valens . . . was only 17 and had come out of [San Fernando] Valley garages and dance halls to [...]

Click on each image to see more details. ASCOT HILLS PARK WATCH AND COUNTDOWN! ENFORCING PHYSICAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1956 President’s Council on Physical Fitness COCHABAMBA WORLD PEOPLE’S CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL WARMING AND RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH “KEEP BALDWIN HILLS CLEAN AND GREEN FOR GENERATATIONS TO COME” KRESGE FOUNDATION “A REMARKABLE MOMENT IN [...]

Founding Director of The City Project Earns Prestigious Public Health Honor November 9, 2010 DENVER — Robert García, founding director and counsel of the Los Angeles-based nonprofit The City Project, has received the American Public Health Association’s prestigious Presidential Citation, recognizing García’s work empowering underserved communities throughout California. Past recipients of the award include Nelson [...]

With so many public traces gone, it would seem that final accountings might be frustrated. That might be true of the ones that got away, but not all lists of names have disappeared. The Chinese Los Angelenos who were killed on October 24, 1871 were not nameless. The Los Angeles Daily News printed a record [...]